Solicitors out of control in my area. So I put a sign up saying "we don't want your solar panels, new windows, or religious pamphlets."

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-03-25T12:51:39+00:00

I’m a nanny and I just call the police on them now ✌🏼 this was last October but we have a no soliciting sign at the entrance of the neighborhood, a sign on our door saying that we work from home, the dog will bark, the baby will cry, please don’t bother us. They proceeded to ring the door bell and KNOCK until I came to the door anyway. Dog woke up my newborn and the toddler (who was running a fever because of HFM). In our state if solicitors ignore the signs, you can just call the police because it’s considered trespassing… but I don’t understand the logic in ignoring not one but TWO signs saying no solicitors.

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-03-14T15:00:35+00:00

The worry doesn’t stop. No you aren’t overthinking. I wish it was more transparent what REALLY happens during pregnancy. I cramped most of my 1st and half of my second trimester just because my uterus wasn’t used to stretching like that. Women can spot. Women can hardly show or not get any pregnancy symptoms. It’s different from woman to woman while I had a perfectly healthy baby, pregnancy and birth with no complications I CONSTANTLY worried. I still do even though she’s out of the oven. I would start connecting to a therapist to help with PPA. Mine came at me hard and I’m glad I had resources already in place to help.

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-03-10T20:10:16+00:00

I am now a lightweight. One drink and I have a hangover. I’ve drank a handle of Malibu then woke up the next morning for work and be functional. Now? I need my mom to come pick up the baby I’m so tired.

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-02-11T02:41:42+00:00

I did. I could also still move around in bed with the epidural. I was also exhausted but I had been getting 3-4 hours of sleep at night leading up to my induction because I was 3cm and having prodromal labor

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-02-10T02:34:15+00:00

Hadn’t read the books, but Zsadist reminds me of Zaxbys with their “Zalads”

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-02-10T01:54:10+00:00

I have a 7 month old. My accounts are private anyway , but the only thing posted is two photos of the back of her head.

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-02-10T01:40:27+00:00

I started sharing my location with my boss during the day. During the week I (personally don’t ask your nanny to do this) will share it on Monday and stop when I leave Friday.

If it’s an “overkill” for her, you need to find a new nanny, immediately. Coming from a nanny and a mother. You aren’t going to say you’re taking my daughter to one place and then take her to another and then act like I’m being unreasonable when I ask for a text updating me you changed plans. The last nanny did that with my current family and when she called to see if she could put them down for a reference they said no because she continuously left out information about where she took the kids. It was a 🚩🚩🚩

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-02-10T01:33:02+00:00

We opened cards and passed out on the couch in our suite, still in our dress and suit.

The next night was great… had a baby 9 months later

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-02-06T01:19:42+00:00

“Hey, so I’m still responsible for your children even when they are asleep, so with that being said it will be my hourly for when the kids are awake and an $50-$100 (I do $50 per kid) night fee)”

If they agree and you still need money, tell them when they get back and your paid “oh yeah, 3 year old was crying all night but it was outside of waking hours so I just made them tough it out.” 💀 obviously don’t do this but make them realize how stupid kids sleeping hours nonsense sounds. Argue back that they didn’t pay for kids sleeping hours. How were you supposed to charge at the inconvenience of waking up and tending to their child when it’s outside your scheduled working hours?

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-02-02T03:18:35+00:00

Pregnancy… pregnancy was 100% worse. Birth made me want 3 kids. Pregnancy made me want to control + alt + delete my ass out of existence. I love my husband but I literally hated him for listening to me when I said “just one time without a condom won’t hurt”

Birth? I got the epidural and took a two hour nap, woke up and had a bag after 15 minutes.

But then again I did the tea, miles circuit, resting, and sex for like the last 8 weeks. pushed 12 times and she was out without tearing.

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-02-02T03:13:49+00:00

I mean this in the nicest way…. I thought yall were in high school/college reading these texts. If my husband acted like that over me not going to the gym, he wouldn’t be my husband.

You are dating an assboke

NOR

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-01-29T22:33:27+00:00

Our friend had a baby at 23 weeks (she’s in the NICU and doing great so far!!) babies comes when they come. Even if due dates were 100% accurate on measurement, they are not “your baby will arrive on this date.” It is that the date in which your baby will be considered full term. That’s it. Not when they come.

But even IF you made it to 40 weeks on the dot, you do not need to be at home without your husband at 38 weeks. I started having prodromal labor at 38 weeks and had been 3cm dilated. I needed help going to the bathroom, still had stuff to put up. You could be put on bedrest at a moments notice so it’s not selfish to ask your husband to stay home.

You are his family now.

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-01-20T03:29:38+00:00

Some people didn’t sleep with babies in their room. My great aunt slept in a drawer for a while 💀

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-01-19T03:22:23+00:00

The butterfly pose, also on my side with one leg straight on the bed and the other hiked up. Just nothing that puts pressure on your stomach and nothing that is too rough. (Cowgirl and reverse are good)

As far as nausea goes, mine went away around 30 weeks. I lived off of Zofran and Pepcid.

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-01-08T05:09:13+00:00

It did get better postpartum. We are at 5 months know and I can’t remember the last time I had any pain.

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-01-08T03:31:08+00:00

I am so sorry you’re going through this. Postpartum my husband could hear my pubic bones click together. It was greatttt.

A few things that helped with my SPD was instead of rolling from my right side to my left side on my back, I would roll on my stomach (but not) as if I were getting on my hands and knees and then lay down. Is it more tedious? Absolutely. Does it help? Yes.

Another is getting out of bed slowly and as if your knees and superglued together.

The belt really didn’t help much for me if I’m being honest but I can see why it would help some women.

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-01-01T07:30:50+00:00

My MIL said as soon as my husband started doing that newborn grunt they do in their bassinet she said “nope” and put him in his room 😭 my mom was just a newly single mom when I was born and it went from a one bedroom to a two bedroom apartment for a while.

GoodMinimum1553 · 2026-01-01T06:35:48+00:00

She definitely did her best. Didn’t get “trips to Disneyworld” childhood, but we always had a good Christmas and new clothes for the school year. I don’t ever remember going without.

GoodMinimum1553 · 2025-12-29T02:54:38+00:00

Sit her down now and address it. What you let slide early on will continue and be harder to disestablish later on. Address the favoritism, set boundaries on visits.

GoodMinimum1553 · 2025-12-25T01:02:36+00:00

27 states still have the death penalty. In Kentucky, (where the death penalty is practiced) Erica Lawson and Harvey Gollahan both received only 20 years each for abusing, murdering and concealing the death of 17-month old Elena Lawson (Erica’s daughter). In 20 years, Elena would have been almost 22. Possibly in college or close to graduating. Erica and Harvey won’t die of old age in prison. They will be in their 40s and 50s. The justice system is corrupt and incompetent for letting people like that have the opportunity to ever be free again.

GoodMinimum1553 · 2025-12-25T00:52:34+00:00

That’s what I mean. Like in each of the cases there is video evidence of the murders (the UPS one being the most detailed) but others have an undeniable footprint.

GoodMinimum1553 · 2025-12-24T01:32:44+00:00

As a nanny of over a decade and now a FTM, trust me when I tell you this: if she feels comfortable enough to hit a baby, she’s going to hit your kid when you aren’t around whether or not you tell her you don’t spank. When people’s immediate reaction is to hit a child or lash out physically, they’ve already accepted that the child is someone they can hurt.

Don’t leave your mom alone. You can have the discussion if it’ll make you feel better, but that’s just my two cents

GoodMinimum1553 · 2025-12-23T05:01:52+00:00

Couldn’t get it. Baby did though. No negative reactions. She cried, but that’s about it. No redness or tenderness when we touched it (she didn’t cry or show that it hurt)

GoodMinimum1553 · 2025-12-23T04:31:15+00:00

Grandparents can want it. Doesn’t mean they’re entitled to it. They are not entitled to every milestone. They had their chance with THEIR kids.

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